Quotes About Reflection

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.

All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

The greatest mistake is in not being aware that others are Christ. There are very many people who will not discover it until their last day.

What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities will lose their glamour.

So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.

I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

Faith lives in honest doubt.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

His Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important but that we always consider Him directly, immediately, and without intermediary in all our actions.

There is no faith, without a critical mind